Simon Cowell is also impressed by the single mother and left shocked by her lack of confidence.

“I think, no, I know, you have an amazing voice,” he said. “I don’t know why you suffer from no confidence.”

He apparently told the panel, which included Louis Walsh and guest judge Katy Perry: “I absolutely love her, she is genuinely a lovely woman with great talent and I hope the audience loves her too. She deserves this break.”

One of Byrne’s neighbours told the paper: “She is over the moon. All she has wanted all her life is to realise her dream of being a singer.